Hiya all, 

 

I hope its ok to post this here, I understand technical questions dont go in this part of the forum, but its not a question lol, I just want to share my experience with you guys, might be of help, my apologies in advance if I dont know the technical terms 

 

Right, so last year March I bought a 6n2 1.4 16v estate, I got it to replace the 1.0 3dr 6n2 as an upgrade, but within a couple of months she broke down, acceleration was on and off, then completely disappeared, the mechanic I took it to told me either gearbox or clutch or something else similar expensive and big jobs, and was adviced to scrap her, but I left her on my drive because I got her for her being the not so common estate version

 

So in the last couple of days I did some more indept googleing, because I started her and on the clutch drove her on the carpark, which told me it just couldn't be above mentioned problems, I came to the conclusion that it could be the accelerator pedal sensor, also called the throttle sensor, but not to be confused with the throttle body sensor or throttle body position sensor, that bit is important as there is plenty of info to be found on the throttle body problems, but hardly anything on the sensor I was after, and turns out I was right!!

So did some hunting for a replacement, even called vw dealer who quoted me £633!!  But found one on ebay in the end for only £25!! Same brand, same part number,

I took the old one out, put the new one in, and gently stepped on the accelerator, it works!!! As you can understand I am totally over the moon because its been puzzling me, and the mechanic as to what the problem could be, worried it would cost me an arm and a leg to get her fixed, plus its apparently a very common fault, but that sensor hardly gets mentioned, hence I wanted to share it here,in case anyone has the same problem,  I will also  try and add a couple pics

 

Hope it helps! 

Good to know how you fixed the problem

Obviously in my case it was a bodged job, but its still a common and easy fix problem, if only I'd known, I could have saved me a lot of money, which i instead put in the 1.0 Polo to keep it going 

The replacement with part number

And this was under the red tape lol 

Yeah, there's not much in them just two variable resistance potentiometers, hate to think how VW manage to charge so much for them !!

I almost dropped the phone when they told me, £633!! I asked if he was sure he had the right part and if that maybe included the whole pedal and all lol, but nope, that was just for the very same part as the one above

I know what you mean, for £633 I'd want the rest of the car included !! not just the sensor unit!!

021907475D

(so users engines can find the accelerator pedal fly-by-wire part number)

 

Despite the 747 not a Boeing jumbo jet part so no excuse for VAG price.

9 hours ago, nige8021 said:

I know what you mean, for £633 I'd want the rest of the car included !! not just the sensor unit!!

Lmbo!! I only paid 300 for the whole car!